The Government are determined to press through the contract for
wireless stations with the Marconi Company.
On Wednesday in the Commons the matter of the contract was debated on the motion for the adjournment. Mr. Samuel insisted that it was a public duty to let the Marconi Company
have the contract, and have it they should. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, on the other hand, used some very plain language about the Company. We cannot do better in this context than quote what the Liberal Nation said last week on this subject :- " Within the last few days the Goldschmidt people have managed to establish a communication for 3,600 miles from Hanover in Germany to Atlantic City in America, and it is claimed that the current is strong enough to send a message 1,600 miles further still. The Goldschmidt promoters also declare that they can establish stations 20 per cent. cheaper than the Marconi, and can guarantee higher speed and greater regularity. All these are matters for careful testing, and we should have thought that the moral of the old proverb, 'Once bit, twice shy,' had by this time impressed itself on the Post Office."
We have nothing to add to these words of reason and caution.
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